Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems, compiled by Frederic William Moorman, gives the reader a wonderful flavor of the Yorkshire form of English. Both familiar and extremely dissimilar from the Standard English we speak today, at times, Yorkshire reads like another language. I suggest reading the poems aloud. This way, even if you don’t understand the words (some words are translated in footnotes, others are not) you get the taste of the words in your mouth. You hear their musicality.
I envy those who can speak this language; how wonderful it would be to speak a Standard English and a so-called dialect like Yorkshire. What a far more expansive world.
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